Improvement in candy-cutters



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Candy-Gutters. A No. 143,590. Patented om. 14,187.3.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANCIS QUINN, OF KEOKUK, IOIVA.

IMPR-OVEMENT IN CANDY-CUTTER-S.

' Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 143,590, dated vOctober 14, 1873; application filed i August 13, 1873.

To all 'whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANcrs QUIEN, of Ke okuk, Lee county7 Iowa, have invented an Improvement in Candy-Cutters, of which the following is a specification:

This invention is an improvement in the candy-cutter patented to FEANcIs QUINN, October 1,1872, and'relates to some of the details therein, which are made as set forth hereinafter, referring1 to the drawings, in which- Figure l is a sectional side view of a portion of the machine, and Fig 2 a cross-section of a portion of same on line W X, Fig. l.

The general arrangement of the machine is similar to that in the patent referred to. The operating parts are mounted 011 a main frame, A,`which has two pairs of uprights, B, to hold the cutter-frame gates. The cutters C C', which may be one, two, or more in number, are hung in a frame, D, and are arranged a suitable disrise and fall with the cutter-frame'at work, and be held in'place. The gates, with the cut-Y ters, are raised and fed down in cutting by screws at each gate. These screws are made to act together by a shaft underneath, having bevel-wheels gearing with bevel-wheels on each screw-shaft. The knife next to the lump of candy being cut is iiat on the side next to the mass. The other side being shaped so, the cutter is thin 011 011e or xboth edges, and thick in the middle for strength, the other knife or knives being beveled on both sides, so as to make both edges thin. There is a slot through the gate at one end, so as to let the drivingpitman I pass from the driving-crank to a wrist on the cutter-frame near the end of the critters.

The candy to be cut is put on a board, G, which is fed crosswise under the knives by a screw or other means as the candy is cut. This has a box, H, to t over the candy and hold it in place. The bottom edges of this box are made dovetailed, and fitted to run in grooves in the board G, so as to slide back as the board is fed up to the knives. Each gate has a part projecting from it toward the place of the candy to be cut, K. This bears a box, O, which has a slot cut in it to pass each knife; and the'side of the box next to the candy has ivory scrapers to iit the knife as it comes from the candy,

and scrape off any candy that may stick to it.

These scrapers are arranged to fit tightl by spring -pressure or otherwise. Back of the Scrapers the boxes have Sponges or other suitable substance saturated with oil, and arranged to oil both sides of each knife, to lubricate it in cutting, and keep the candy from sticking. The boxes have upright rods through the sponge to hold it in place.

l.. Thecandy-cutter having cutters C G set in one reciprocating frame, D, and having feedboard G, with its cover H iitted to it, to slide in grooves, all substantially as set forth.

2. The candy-cutter, having knives. with both sides beveled to make the front and back thin and the center thicker. ,v

3. The candy-cutter with eachknife passing through oil-boxes or oilers to lubricate it.

FRANCIS QUINN.

Witnesses y SAME. J. WALLACE, R. M. MARSHALL. 

